Tuesday, March 11, 2014

"Smile"

8 x 10

acrylic on hardboard

I'm still raiding our family photo album. How can you
resist this fabulous smile. It's larger-than-life. This
is one of my grandfather's sisters. He
came from a large family, having eight siblings. I wanted to be bold with the background, but
that didn't work, so I went with a nice calm green. At least, it's not taking away from the
portrait. I think I wrote before, how
hard backgrounds were for me. I guess I'll try to be bold again next time. In
the end I went with the soft green. I thought of the colors of my grandmother's
bedrooms. When I was growing up, one was a soft pastel green. The other a soft
pink. It always seemed dated and never changed. Then at the age of about eighty, she painted
every room, and I do mean every room in her house white. When I went to
visit and saw what she had done, I asked, who had helped her? She told me her
niece, who was seventy years old at the time.

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My 5"x7" paintings are $100. The larger 8"x10"paintings are priced at $140. I have begun to work a little larger at 12"x16" which is priced at $200. All paintings are signed, varnished, and ready to be framed when you receive them.